Paducah area (KY). Radiation monitoring in, during 1967 and 1968. SURFACE WATERS. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah plant during 1967 and 1968. ENVIRONMENT. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah plant during 1967 and 1968. PLANTS. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1967 and 1968. ATMOSPHERE. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1967 and 1968.
{"title":"Environmental monitoring summary for the Paducah plant for 1967 & 1968. KY-582.","authors":"K A Davis, E G Brown","doi":"10.2172/4775160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2172/4775160","url":null,"abstract":"Paducah area (KY). Radiation monitoring in, during 1967 and 1968. SURFACE WATERS. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah plant during 1967 and 1968. ENVIRONMENT. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah plant during 1967 and 1968. PLANTS. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1967 and 1968. ATMOSPHERE. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1967 and 1968.","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":" ","pages":"1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1969-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16885606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paducah Area (KY). Radiation monitoring of air, vegetation, and water in vicinity of Paducah Plant 1965 to 1966; ATMOSPHERE. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966. WATER. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966; PLANTS. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966; RADIOACTIVITY. Monitoring in air, vegetation, and water in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966.
{"title":"Environmental monitoring summary for the Paducah plant for 1965 & 1966. KY-543.","authors":"R C Baker, K A Davis","doi":"10.2172/4507857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2172/4507857","url":null,"abstract":"Paducah Area (KY). Radiation monitoring of air, vegetation, and water in vicinity of Paducah Plant 1965 to 1966; ATMOSPHERE. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966. WATER. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966; PLANTS. Radiation monitoring of, in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966; RADIOACTIVITY. Monitoring in air, vegetation, and water in vicinity of Paducah Plant during 1965 to 1966.","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":" ","pages":"1-11"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1967-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16664811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental monitoring summary for the Paducah Plant for 1964. KY-484.","authors":"R C Baker, A W Russell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":" ","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1965-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"16924718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Absorption and geometry experiments in gamma spectrometry of uranium with a large scintillation detector.","authors":"R E COFIELD","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"Y-1402 ","pages":"15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32131230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dosimetry badge orientation experiment.","authors":"J W REDMOND","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"Y-1405 ","pages":"25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1962-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32131680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An investigation of the solid particulate collection efficiency of the traverse-type stack probe.","authors":"R B SCHAPPEL","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"Y-1372 ","pages":"59"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32132285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A low-background facility is described for rneasuring lung burdens of U, Th, and other nuclides in vivo. Problems associated with this method of radiation measurement are discussed. A mathennatical, computer-oriented simulation was devised to gain insight into the relation of the net observed radiation spectrum to the burden of radioactivity in the body or its organs. Chest cavities for persons of three sizes were synthesized in a three-coordinate space comprised of one-inch cubes and including a 9-in.-diameter crystal detector. Data, describing the tissue composition of each cube in the body and the characteristic radiation attenuation for each tissue-type, were coded for use with a program on a high-speed digital computer. Efficiencies for measuring radiation emitted by numerous point sources of enriched uranium were calculated. Data on in vivo measurement efficiency were obtained assuming uniform distribution of radioactive material throughout the lungs and also for nonuniform deposits. The effects of individual size and geometry, and of detector position on the measurement efficiency were determined for these twvo categories and radiation flux distributions on the detector face were computed in some cases. Data are appended and a flow diagram of the computer program is included. (C.H.)
{"title":"In vivo gamma lung measurements--a mathematical model.","authors":"P R AMMANN, C W WILSON, C M MOHR","doi":"10.2172/4817201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2172/4817201","url":null,"abstract":"A low-background facility is described for rneasuring lung burdens of U, Th, and other nuclides in vivo. Problems associated with this method of radiation measurement are discussed. A mathennatical, computer-oriented simulation was devised to gain insight into the relation of the net observed radiation spectrum to the burden of radioactivity in the body or its organs. Chest cavities for persons of three sizes were synthesized in a three-coordinate space comprised of one-inch cubes and including a 9-in.-diameter crystal detector. Data, describing the tissue composition of each cube in the body and the characteristic radiation attenuation for each tissue-type, were coded for use with a program on a high-speed digital computer. Efficiencies for measuring radiation emitted by numerous point sources of enriched uranium were calculated. Data on in vivo measurement efficiency were obtained assuming uniform distribution of radioactive material throughout the lungs and also for nonuniform deposits. The effects of individual size and geometry, and of detector position on the measurement efficiency were determined for these twvo categories and radiation flux distributions on the detector face were computed in some cases. Data are appended and a flow diagram of the computer program is included. (C.H.)","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"Y-1363 ","pages":"60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32131402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Is all nuclear radiation harmful?","authors":"H F HENRY","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"K-1470 ","pages":"1-25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1961-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32130044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K W BAHLER, A F RUPP, R H LAFFERTY, J W WACHTER, L S O'ROURKE
{"title":"Prevention and handling of radiation emergencies.","authors":"K W BAHLER, A F RUPP, R H LAFFERTY, J W WACHTER, L S O'ROURKE","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"K-1436 ","pages":"1-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32135181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tabulations of the radioactivity in the thorium series decay chain and a discussion of the radioactivity variations possible in non-equllibrium conditions of the decay chain are presented. Experimental data indicate that the daughters of thorium within the human lung may be measured by in vivo gamma spectrometry and related to Th/sup 232/ content for thorium quantities as small as 9 mug, if the activity ratio of Th/sup 232/: Th/sup 228/ is knowu for the deposited material. Two crystel gamma coincidence measurements of pairs of the simultaneously emitted gamma quanta from the daughters are suggested as a promising approach to thorium in vivo measurements. (auth)
{"title":"Radioactivity of thorium and feasibility of in vivo thorium measurements.","authors":"R E COFIELD","doi":"10.2172/4199670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2172/4199670","url":null,"abstract":"Tabulations of the radioactivity in the thorium series decay chain and a discussion of the radioactivity variations possible in non-equllibrium conditions of the decay chain are presented. Experimental data indicate that the daughters of thorium within the human lung may be measured by in vivo gamma spectrometry and related to Th/sup 232/ content for thorium quantities as small as 9 mug, if the activity ratio of Th/sup 232/: Th/sup 228/ is knowu for the deposited material. Two crystel gamma coincidence measurements of pairs of the simultaneously emitted gamma quanta from the daughters are suggested as a promising approach to thorium in vivo measurements. (auth)","PeriodicalId":79170,"journal":{"name":"KY [reports]. U.S. Atomic Energy Commission","volume":"Y-1280 ","pages":"1-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32135224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}